MOSES BEN ISAAC:

Austrian author; lived at Bisenz, Moravia, in the latter half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of: "Darash Mosheh" (Cracow, 1595), explanation of 256 quaint Talmudical haggadot in "'En Ya'aḳob," published by Isaac Prossnitz; "He ha-Yedi'ah" (ib.), a prayer on the Messianic redemption, in 2,150 words, all beginning with the letter "alef"; "'Ammude 'Abodah" (ib.), on the education of children and on asceticism.